Fallout 4: A Game I Love but Not the One I Wanted

While Fallout 4 may be one of my favourite games this year, there seems as if there is something missing from the over all experience that has let me down

[gangsta_red]

Yea playing this now and I have to agree with the title alone.

It's a great Fallout game but it really does fall a tad flat with my expectations of how the next installment should have been on these new consoles.

Especially after playing other open world games like MGS and Witcher 3.

[Bahamut]

The Witcher 3 is just so damn good.

[gangsta_red]

Witcher 3 is very good but it's the little things that game did that spoiled me with open world games.

The no loading when going in and out of buildings was the biggest thing. Deadrising on X1 had this also and it's definitely makes a difference.

Not to mention other little things like dumb AI. Having raiders stepping over their partners bodies that have been recently blown to chunks really stands out.

It's a shame that Bethesda spent this much time on this game and it isn't anything different from Fallout 3 in fact a step back a little from 3.

[objdadon]

This is my fallout and im hooked! Seems that fallout veterans are upset with some of the changes from rpg to more shooter than rpg. Im not the deep hardcore rpg type of person,im more a fps fan that likes openworld games that shoot and loot. This game delivers that in the best way I've come across! I love it!

[pumpactionpimp]

Your opinion is fine, and I'm quite glad you're enjoying the game. But in a world with fewer and fewer unique rpgs, like what fallout 3 and morrowind/oblivion before it brought us. It's becoming a rarity to find rpgs that are pushing things in a new direction. In fact mass effect 1 to 2 to 3, became more of a casual shooter as the series progressed. The elder scrolls and fallout series seem to be following the same path. I get that companies do this to appeal to larger crowds of gamers. But it's starting to sicken a lot of loyal rpg players. So you can understand the frustration that I, and other rpg lovers are begining to feel.

[objdadon]

I understand completely where you're coming from. Im part of the crowd they wanted to appeal to. While the game definitely satisfies me, it pushes true rpg gamers like yourself away.

[InTheZoneAC]

all you did what state how you feel.

what exactly were you looking for in fallout 4?

[CJ64Bit]

InTheZoneAC, I cover a good amount of the issues in the article. Odds are you fall in tge camp that prefers shooters over RPGs since Fallout 4 does lean more heavily on those aspects while pushing some if not most of it's RPG mechanics to the side in favor for a more streamlined action game that will appeal to a wider audience. To have a more in deoth awnser, please read the article.

[Der_Kommandant]

I love the game but damn it feels so outdated in so many levels.

[gangsta_red]

Wow, exactly. I was playing it and I was trying to put my finger on what I felt was wrong but the main issue is that right there.

Great game but not the leap I was expecting from this game.

[MadLad]

The Witcher 3 raised the bar for the open world RPG.
Fallout 4 played it safe, all the while limiting, or outright removing, elements of the RPG from previous titles; especially when you consider the title prior was New Vegas.

It's a great game, but it's very dissimilar to Bethesda's attempts at the Fallout series prior.
It's not the direction I was hoping for in the series going forward.

[InTheZoneAC]

what exactly did they do that you don't like? All I see from people are blanket "it wasn't what I was hoping for" statements and not a single one pointed out a single thing they wish they did differently.

To me fallout 4>fallout 3>fallout new vegas

[CJ64Bit]

Not to be rude but I point out a good amount of features that I miss and how this entry differs with it's content to justify my "thus isnt what I had hoped for" feeling.